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New Nasa Space Sensors to Address Key Earth Questions
Why is the Arctic warming faster than the rest of the planet?
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The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
After decades of heavy slog with no promise of success, quantum computing is suddenly buzzing with almost feverish excitement and activity.
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Quantum Algorithm Could Help AI Think Faster
Researchers at the Center for Quantum Technologies in Singapore propose a "quantum linear system algorithm" to help crunch numbers on a wide array of problems. ...
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How to Control a Machine sing Your Mind
Bill Kochevar's life was changed, seemingly irrevocably, when he was paralysed from the shoulders down following a cycling accident nearly a decade ago.
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Physicists Harness Twisted Mathematics to Make Powerful Laser
Researchers have exploited the twisty nature of topological physics to produce a high-quality beam of laser light—a step that could lead to the first practical...
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If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (and Amazon Has a Patent For It.)
What if your employer made you wear a wristband that tracked your every move, and that even nudged you via vibrations when it judged that you were doing something...
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MIT Enlisting Hundreds of Scientists in Effort to Make Computers Think More Like People
MIT has launched the MIT Intelligence Quest, an agenda to coordinate the efforts of MIT's many experts to train computers to think in a more human-like manner. ...
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A Small-Scale Demonstration Shows How Quantum Computing Could Revolutionize Data Analysis
An experiment by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China used quantum computers to calculate Betti numbers. The work "suggests that data...
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China Wants to Make the Chips that Will Add AI to Any Gadget
In an office at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a computer chip is crunching data from a nearby camera, looking for faces stored in a database.
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Penn Engineering Research Gives Optical Switches the 'contrast' of Electronic Transistors
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they have found a way to precisely control a combination of optical signals, producing outputs with a near-perfect...
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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a Researchers Observe Electrons Zipping Around in Crystals
Researchers at the University of Arizona are investigating transition metal dichalcogenides' potential for enabling new techniques for data processing and storage...
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cf Researchers Lend a Hand on Additive Manufacturing
The U.S. Army and the U.S. Office of Naval Research are working with University of Central Florida researchers to help push the limits of additive manufacturing...
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Applying Machine Learning to the niverse's Mysteries
Berkeley Lab scientists and their collaborators used neural networks to analyze simulations of heavy ion collisions.
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Data Visualization Tools Drive Interactivity and Reproducibility in Online Publishing
As Benjamin Delory started his paper documenting a new way to quantify plant morphology, he realized that one of the figures could pose a problem.
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Vista From Mars Rover Looks Back Over Journey So Far
A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing,...
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The Next Big Breakthrough in Robotics
Northeastern University professor Robert Platt says advances in machine learning, big data, and robot perception have put the robotics field on the brink of a major...
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Study Produces 3D Images That Float in 'thin Air'
Researchers say they have developed a way to create a three-dimensional volumetric projection hat a viewer can walk around and see from every angle.
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How Programmers Learn to Code
Most coders' programming skills are self-taught, and more than a quarter of surveyed developers wrote their first piece of code before they were 16 years old. ...
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